Director of Marketing

Job description / Role

Rixos Qetaifan Island North

Opening mid 2022, Rixos Doha Qetaifan will comprise a 345-key hotel, along with a souq encompassing 11,000sq m of leasing space, a beach club, a theme park and a waterpark. The resort will boast panoramic views of the Arabian Gulf. Slated to make its debut right before the World Cup, Rixos plans to provide a platform for showcasing Qatar as a tourism destination. One of the country's biggest draws will be Qetaifan Island North's waterpark attraction The Icon Tower, the world's highest tower of its kind, reaching 82 metres in height.

Director of Marketing

This position is responsible for providing direction, guidance, and leadership to a marketing department. They typically manage the marketing of hotels and waterparks.

What's in it for you:

- Be part of a unique and complex resort in Qatar
- Take advantage of opportunities to be recognized for your professional contributions
- Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide
- Learning programs through our academies
- Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world
- Ability to make a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities like Planet 21

What you will be doing:

- Overseeing the marketing department in the hotel and waterpark.
- Evaluating and developing hotel/waterpark marketing strategy and marketing plan.
- Planning, directing, and coordinating marketing efforts
- Develop and implement a marketing plan, including a promotional calendar and programs, new product introductions, and another marketing project.
- Working with the sales department to develop pricing strategies to maximize profit and market share while balancing guest satisfaction.
- Offer expert advice to develop innovative advertising, public relations, social media, and events
- Supervise a marketing team, including hiring, training, workloads, schedules, and deadlines
- Developing promotions with the advertising manager and identifying the potential guest.
- Understanding and developing budget and finance, including expenditure, research, and development appropriation, return on investment, and profit-loss projections.
- Developing and managing advertising campaigns.
- Building brand awareness and building market positioning.
- Organizing hotel conferences, trade shows, and major events.
- Overseeing social media marketing strategy and content marketing.

Requirements

Your experience and skills include:

- Degree in Business Management/Sales & Marketing Management
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar capacity with proven track records
- Proven Marketing campaign experience
- Strong copywriting skills
- Excellent reading, writing, and oral proficiency in the English language.
- Arabic speaker will be preferred
- Experience in digital marketing forms such as social media, marketing, and content marketing.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills.
- Competency in Microsoft applications including word, excel, PowerPoint, and outlook.

Your team & working environment:

At Accor, we are Heartists!
Are you ready to put your heart at the center of everything that you do? If so, then join our team of Heartists at Rixos Qetaifan Island, Every day, we look for opportunities to engage on a personal & meaningful way with our guests and each other. We deliver heartfelt hospitality in an environment that is engaging, enthusiastic and professionally rewarding!

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.

Why work for Accor?

We are far more than a worldwide leader. We welcome you as you are and you can find a job and brand that matches your personality. We support you to grow and learn every day, making sure that work brings purpose to your life, so that during your journey with us, you can continue to explore Accor's limitless possibilities.
By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow's hospitality.

About the Company

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